Beans beans...

"Beans beans they're good for your heart-

the more you eat, the more you fart!"

I think this jingle alone may be responsible for thousands of unneccesary deaths, and I will show you why.


One of the widely repeated mantras of the health world is that "fiber is good for your heart by reducing cholesterol.

There are two assumptions happening here.

1. Fiber reduces cholesterol
   
   
2. Reducing cholesterol is good for your heart
   

Now the first is true, because when your liver synthesizes bile it uses large amounts of cholesterol. This is why herbs such as artichoke and guggul (myrrh bark) reduce cholesterol; by increasing bile synthesis.

From there, insoluble fiber can combine with the bile, reducing its reabsorption.

For this reason, the heart-disease preventing effects of beans and legumes has often been attributed to their fiber content. However, this alone cannot nearly account for the large discrepancy between the effects of legumes and other forms of fiber (psyllium, whole wheat fiber, etc) on the reduction of heart disease.

Regular intake of whole grains has been found to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by between 20%-40%.

However, in a broad survey of international dietary habits, legumes alone were found to be associated with a whopping reduction of 82%! That is quite a discrepancy!

So what could be among the other properties of beans and legumes that may account for this seemingly cavernous gap in efficacy?

This requires me to get into an area of knowledge that most people (especially in the "alternative" health community) have no true understanding of, although the word is thrown around so often: enzymes.

When looking for stand out characteristics of beans, one can't help but notice one nutrient standing arms and legs above the rest:

How often have you heard the alternative health media talk about molybdenum? Probably not very much.

The current mantra of the health world is "Eat only raw, organic fruits, vegetables, and ZOMG OMEGA THRE33ZZW~!111!!EOONELEVEN!!1!"


First of all, I do not believe in vegetarianism, or any "ism" for that matter except under ideal conditions, for reasons I will discuss in another article, and it goes far beyond "b12," although I do agree that a vegan diet is possible; just not in the way most are doing it. Second of all, this reductionist mentality without the work and research required leads to a lot of holes in nutrition.


Anyway, I'm getting off topic. One of the most important and seldom mentioned food groups is legumes.


As you can see above, one cup of black beans has 172% the daily value of molybdenum. Personally, I think the DV should be much higher, and adequate levels of molybdenum in organic soil should be mandatory, but we'll work with what we got. So what exactly does molybdenum do in the body?


Well, molybdenum is involved in the creation of some of the most vital enzymes in the body including nitrate reductase, xanthine oxidase, and sulphite oxidase.


We are only going to discuss suphite oxidase for the reasons shown below in this chart.























Besides cholesterol levels, a biomarker that is an even more accurate predictor of the risk of cardiovascular disease acknowledged by the medical community; homocysteine. The way that homocysteine is "reduced," or regenerated to beneficial methionine, is through a processes known as methylation.


The current approach of the "cutting edge" of science is to simply throw methyl donors at it such as Trimethylglycine (betaine hcl), b6 (pyrodamine or pyroxidal-5-phosphate), or b12 (methylcobalamin; cyanocobalamin actually steals methyl groups). As you can see, this process also requires the presence of magnesium, which everyone and their grandmother knows is a widespread deficiency in the Standard American Diet.


Any good nutritionist, and there aren't many, understands that every mineral in the body must be balanced in a specific ratio. For calcium, the main balancing mineral required for it's use and/or excretion is magnesium. However, most foods with significant magnesium content such as grains and leafy green vegetables have significantly more calcium than magnesium, which is not useful when there is already excess calcium. However, there is one food group that does:


Beans. Or rather legumes in general.


















Many thanks to George Mateljan for the great work he's done in making this nutrient database available for us all. Anyway moving on,



The second process involved is actually relation to the creation of homocysteine; sulfation.


As you can see here, severe deficiency of molybdenum results in an inability to properly utilize methionine, resulting in ahomocysteinemia, along with excessive levels of sulfite and S-sulfocysteine. This is where things get extremely enlightening.


The way that the body breaks down lipids and lipoprotiens is with an enzyme called lipase. Now this next information is so valuable that I feel almost a little pissed that I'm not getting paid for all the research I did to find this, especially since not one other health site on the internet has this information.


The minerals responsible for catalyzing the production of lipase are zinc, and more importantly sulfur.


Now contrary to popular belief, the body's main sources of sulfur are not garlic and onions, but the amino acids Cysteine and Methionine, which are sulfur containing amino acids found in every type of meat. However, to utilize the sulfur from these amino acids as I have previously demonstrated, a necessary co-factor is needed: molybdenum. Not only that, but to regenerate sulfur after it has been changed to toxic sulfite, a specific enzyme called sulfite oxidase, produced by molybdenum is needed.


Are you getting a picture of what's happening here?


Let's say someone eats lots of high-cholesterol high-protien meat and eggs every day, and eventually their stores of molybdenum run low.


1. The body loses the ability to utilize the sulfur from protien properly

2. The body loses its sulfur stores necessary to create lipase

3. Lipids and lipoprotiens collect in the arteries, waiting on enzymatic reactions that cannot happen due to sulfur deficiency

4. Toxic sulfite builds up and the homocysteine redux cycle stagnates


And one last invaluable piece of information you won't find on any other health site: molybdenum is also responsible for proper utizilation and reduction of nitric oxide.


The two enzymes responsible for this are nitrogenase and nitrate reductase, both of which are made with molybdenum, as shown in the last article. Nitric oxide is responsible for the proper dilation and tone of blood vessels, which is why many sports supplements attempt to boost its production in order to increase blood flow to the muscles. However, there are two types of nitric oxide: Inos, or Inducible Nitric Oxide, and Enos, or Endothelial nitric oxide. Inducible nitric oxide is associated with an inability to properly regulate nitric oxide function, and damages blood vessels by oxidative stress. Endothelial nitric oxide is associated with cardioprotection, and its production is mediated by guess who: molybdenum.


So you have:


5. Blood vessels damaged by oxidative stress without the ability to utilize endothelial nitric oxide for proper tone and dilation, which then use cholestrol plaque as a scab to repair the damage, without the ability to clear it afterwards.


Is it any wonder then that molybdenum rich beans and soybeans have been found to reduce the incidence of heart disease to such a ridicidulous extent?


Find out how many other pathologies are related to an inability to properly regulate nitric oxide, sulfation, lipids, or vasodilation. In fact, try looking for everything that comes from an inability to create a biological material that ends with "sulfate." Have fun with it at pubmed. I think I've said just about all I'm legally allowed to say.


If you have been looking everywhere for this information, as I was, and appreciate finally finding something that isn't the same quasi-scientific, obscure, regurgitated crap on every goddamn health site, I humbly ask for any donations possible as this information came as the result of incalculable tears, pain, and months of research. Also, I have nearly endless more information I would like to distribute as widely as possible, and so I humbly ask your help to make it possible. Together we can bring excellence to an industry so dominated by mediocrity and belief systems.


Thank you.